ARROW Foundation offers solutions for literacy regression due to pandemic
Managing Director of the ARROW Foundation, Christopher Bonterre, says the pandemic conditions have had an impact on children’s literacy and learning skills, hence the need for the remedial learning ARROW is now offering.
Ayannah Fleming: Finding Freedom
In 2018, attorney Ayannah Fleming packed her bags and jetted off to Nicaragua on a two-week adventure as part of a travel experience called...
Remember to keep your eyes healthy during COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Ronnie Bhola of the Trinidad Eye Hospital, in keeping with May as Healthy Vision Awareness month, took the opportunity to share with Guardian Media some important reminders to keep one’s eyes healthy, during this pandemic.
T&T war dead from WWI and WWII honoured in Belgium
Ten persons who lost their lives during the First World War (WWI) and the Second World War (WWII), who either were born in Trinidad and Tobago or had family connections here, were remembered and honoured recently as the T&T Embassy to the Kingdom of Belgium joined with that country to commemorate the 103rd Anniversary of the signing of the armistice on 11 November 1918, which ended the First World War—on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918.
Peace Pole installed in capital city
on Tuesday 21st September 2021, the capital observed International Peace Day with the unveiling of a Peace Pole in front of the statute of world-famous cricketer Brian Lara, on the Brian Lara Promenade.
Mission Giveback shares groceries and computer tablets
The 1st Choice Family Services (1stCFS) of the USA recently handed out thousands of dollars’ worth of school supplies, toys and food, to families and homeless individuals in Trinidad, who needed it the most during the Yuletide season.
URP workers get Farmer-to-Farmer Training at Spring Garden
Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) participants registered in a three-year ‘Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F)’ virtual training programme of the University of the West Indies and the Purdue University, got a chance to put theory into practice this week, when they commenced practical agricultural training at a private nursery in Spring Gardens, Tobago.
The “Sitting” Disease… Did COVID-19 worsen our risks?
HEALTH PLUS MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT
The world is experiencing an unprecedented, life-altering challenge due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many persons are still becoming adjusted to this...
Always® continues missions to #EndPeriodPoverty and keep more girls in school
Always® says in 2022, the aim is to donate over 160,000 sanitary pads to seven secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago...
Why does my back hurt so much?
If you have ever had lower back pain stop you from doing what you want, you’re not alone! Lower back pain is one of...